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Do good math jokes exist?

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Famous mathematical quotes

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Why should one still teach Riemann integration?

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Have any long-suspected irrational numbers turned out to be rational?

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What should be offered in undergraduate mathematics that’s currently not (or isn’t usually)?

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Memorizing theorems

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Pronunciation: Dijkstra

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What are some reasonable-sounding statements that are independent of ZFC?

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Where are mathematics jobs advertised if not on mathjobs (e.g. in Europe and elsewhere)?

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Careers advice for Ph.D.s without current postdocs or university jobs

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Open problems with monetary rewards

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f(f(x))=exp(x)-1 and other functions “just in the middle” between linear and exponential.

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When and how is it appropriate for an undergraduate to email a professor out of the blue?

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How to respond to “I was never much good at maths at school.”

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Great mathematicians born 1850-1920 (ET Bell’s book ≲ x ≲ Fields Medalists) (4)

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Cocktail party math

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Proofs of Bott periodicity

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Notation for the all-ones vector

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Notable mathematics during World War II

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New arXiv procedures? (2)

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What are the most overloaded words in mathematics?

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Real analysis has no applications?

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Are there any very hard unknots?

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Does $Aut(Aut(…Aut(G)…))$ stabilize?

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Why is the Gamma function shifted from the factorial by 1?

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Math journal for high school students?

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What’s a nice argument that shows the volume of the unit n-ball in R^n approaches 0?

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Combinatorial results without known combinatorial proofs

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Math Vs Social Science

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Definition of “simplicial complex”